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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
IT REALLY *IS* OK TO HATE THE FRENCH…..
There’s a new poll being reported in the Telegraph, and it was taken in numerous European countries…..... Guess what? NO ONE likes the French!!
“Interviewees were simply asked an open question - what five adjectives sum up the French,” said Olivier Clodong, one of the study’s two authors and a professor of social and political communication at the Ecole Superieur de Commerce, in Paris. “The answers were overwhelmingly negative.”
One more fruitless guilt trip I won’t be taking…...!
Friday, March 11, 2005
WILL THE “EU CONSTITUTION” GET SHOT DOWN IN HOLLAND?
It almost sounds like a wave of sanity is rolling over The Netherlands! Skepticism about the total submersion of this small and distinctive country into a superstate dominated by bigger countries is widespread, and as of this writing, it appears likely that the vote on the EU Contstitution will go against that document, and in favor of something a bit more autonomous.
Outside a café in the main square in Maastricht, a troupe of actors enjoying a midmorning rest recount their grievances against the Union. Oda Selbos, with flowing red hair, said: “The euro is a big issue. Everything has doubled in price. When you went to Spain, it was nice to have a different currency. I want to have my guilder back.”
Frederick Brom declared that he was opposed to the EU harmonising everything. “In the EU, everything becomes the same, and that’s a real pity. When I go to France, I want to eat French cheese made by a farmer in his cellar, but with hygiene standards, everything becomes the same.”
One wonders if, over on the other side of the Channel, the Brits are looking past the rhetoric of their political leadership at the reality that will wash over them if they “join” the euro and the Constitution that is being urged upong them…..are they truly ready to give up parliamentary democracy to be ruled by Germany and France with Belgian bureaucrats in between?
“It’s just too bureaucratic, too big. The EU and the people are too far apart,” a grey-haired woman said as she scuttled along the cobbled pedestrian streets, lined with traditional Dutch gabled houses. “It gets bigger, bigger, bigger….The Dutch also have particular financial grievances about the EU, because they contribute more per capita than any other country. The Government is angry that, while it has imposed strict controls on public borrowing to adhere to the bloc’s Stability and Growth Pact, which underpins the euro, France and Germany broke the rules, apparently with impunity..”
Should anybody be surprised at this? When was it likely that Germany would take actions to benefit the smaller countires of Europe if those actions were likely to cause even short-term harm to its economy? READ the whole thing.
Monday, February 21, 2005
FOX-HUNTING APPEARS TO HAVE A FUTURE, DESPITE THE BAN!
Almost 100 foxes were reported killed by hunts across Britain yesterday during a mass show of defiance by foxhunters against the Government ban on their sport….each (hunt) insisted that they had done so in accordance with the new law permitting foxes to be flushed out by no more than two hounds and shot….At the Duke of Beaufort’s in Gloucestershire, the atmosphere was one of noisy exuberance. The hunt master, Capt Ian Farquhar, told a large crowd that he had wept for his hounds at breakfast. He concluded by borrowing words from Winston Churchill: “He said, ‘We must keep buggering on.’ I intend to keep buggering on.”
Looks like there’ll always be an England! Tally Ho!
NOW THEY TELL US!! “RAISING CHILDREN AS VEGANS ‘UNETHICAL’”
A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children’s health by denying them meat….Prof Allen conducted a study of impoverished children in Kenya, and found that adding as little as two spoonfuls of meat a day to their starch-based diets dramatically improved muscle development and mental skills….Allen added. “Had these children received these foods earlier in life, or their mothers received them when they had been pregnant, or people could receive them throughout their lives, we think that the improvements in human capital development would be even more dramatic.”
Makes you wonder why some of that US$15 Billion for condoms isn’t spent on two daily spoonfuls of meat for pregnant Moms and their children, doesn’t it?
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